Tag: Ancient Rome
Pierre Hadot and the spiritual exercises in antiquityΒ
Pierre Hadot's essay offers the opportunity to immerse oneself in the philosophical practice widespread above all in the Hellenistic era: an art of life aimed at forming men in harmony with themselves and with what surrounds them.Β
Arturo Reghini: "The myth of Saturn in Western Tradition"
An extract from Arturo Reghini's essay "On the Western Tradition", originally published in 1928 on the pages of "UR", focusing on the myth of Saturn in the Latin and more generally Indo-European tradition. For those interested in reading it in its entirety, we have attached the PDF downloadable for free.
On HP Lovecraft's βRandolph Carterβ: the Dream, Death and the Sublime
Inside βRandolph Carter's declarationβ, a story that will give life to a cycle of stories dedicated to the character, unravels that network of meanings and concepts so dear to Howard Phillips Lovecraft, even if the story itself is only a few pages long.Β
The solar monotheism of the Emperor Flavius ββClaudius Julian
The swan song of Mediterranean "paganism" and ancient sacred thought in the last attempt of the last emperor of Rome, who paid his personal resistance by being branded as "Apostate"
The symbolism of the Spiral: the Milky Way, the shell, the "rebirth"
di Marco Maculotti
Having analyzed in recent months [cf. Cosmic-agrarian cults of ancient Eurasia] a series of rites, myths and deities connected to the theme of cosmic rebirth, we want in this appointment and in the next ones to focus our attention on some symbols, which we have already mentioned, which archaic man recognized as images capable of eschatologically raising him towards the understanding of this mystery.